Russian Language in Android Emulator

Question

I would like to test my application using Android Emulator. To do this, I need to send SMS in Russian. The problem is that I cannot make emulators input Russian characters.
For example, I set all the locale and language settings into Russian (locale, language, input language), but still when I'm in the SMS sending screen, I can enter only English characters (for now I use Nexus 4 emulator). How can I solve this problem?

Parliamentarianism

Maybe try adding a "hardware keyboard" to your emulator, could that help? – Chaqueta

could you please describe what do you mean in more details? As for now I set input language to Russian (in Settings), but still can enter only English letters – Parliamentarianism

Try adding a hardware keyboard to your AVD if you have a Russian physical keyboard on your computer. Instructions: imgur.com/6Fxfmaq – Chaqueta

Answer 1

You need to add a Russian keyboard layout to the physical keyboard in your AVD and select it. Here's what the process look like in mine:

Note that you don't need to switch the layout of your actual computer keyboard, it has to be English.

Also the dialog in the emulator says that you can switch between layouts with Ctrl+Space, but that doesn't seem to work for me for some reason, so I just do it via the dialog.

Idolatry

Thanks, it works, but as you noticed, only one layout can work (either english or russian, when you switch them in language settings of an emulator). – Corselet